Shantou (Swatow) | Historical Buildings and Their Connections to Overseas Chinese 

Me too. 🤣🤣🤣

me too... my blood is 100% Teochew

Another video of mine explained the historic relationship between this area and Thailand. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9g5zl9l9ZU4.html

My pleasure

Thank you!

Glad you enjoy it. Welcome to visit Shantou sometime in the future!

@@yanyangoaroundinchina Yes I would like to visit beautiful Shantou. 🙏👍❤️

Go for it and have fun!

When is the best time to visit shautou?

@@darrentrang2508 Anytime would be good. I visited in February and as you can see in the video, the weather was pretty nice, not cold at all. There are lot of typhoons in summer. Maybe you should avoid summer.

Thanks for the advice. I need all the advice I can get. 👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes, it's an important part in Suzhou-style gardens. And it's common in China. There's even one in the small park where I grew up. I remember climbing it and hiding in it when I was little.

​@@yanyangoaroundinchinaI have subscribed and will slowly digest your other videos. Because I didn't travel that much

​@@SuccessforLifestersame here!

That's awesome! The local dialect sounds so foreign to me.

Thank you for enlightened me. I never knew that.

The Japanese were very brutal to the Chinese from 1937 until the end of the 2nd world war. They committed all kinds of atrocities. Please read Rape of Nanching if you can find it.

We Hakkas Arent a Minority .. we are Han Chinese with a Different Dialect

Haha. That's right. Neither Chaoshan people nor Hakka people are ethnic minority groups in China.

@@sdcheung That's right Hakka is not ethnic And it's the soul of Han majority.

It's western UAss propaganda news, if Cambodian was control by communist China then why Cambodian massacre lot Chinese and rich and educated people for so it was control by China whole thing make no sense same thing with China they say lot killing slave poor but I went to China for 40 days 15 year ago I and along ton rich Chinese had wonderful time especially now they're lot rich than real big AmeriKKKan.

Teochiew is Chaozhou, which will be featured in my next video. But it's also referred to a huge region that covers todays Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang. So your family is a mix of Chaoshan and Hakka.

@@yanyangoaroundinchina Yes, Chaozhou. Correct I am a mixed of those sub Han dialect people : Chaozhou (father line) and Hakka, Hokkien, my great grandma was a Cantonese (mother line). I was born in Belitung island which dominated by the most Hakka's Fuichew variant (sub South Hakka) so, that's the only dialect I can speak. Great can wait for your next video Yanyan. 👍

Very interesting! I remember you first watched my video Ganzhou more than a year ago and were very interested in the Hakka culture. Then I suggested you watch my Hakka Walled House video. You always show interest in Hakka culture despite of your diversified background.

@@yanyangoaroundinchina Wow, you have a good memories. I like your video because the stories very detail. Since I was a kid I always curious about my ancestor homeland.

I'm not Hakka. I don't think there are many Teochew residing in Meizhou in general. But I kinda understand your logic. Yes, there might be some living in 丰顺。The teochew investors from Shantou of course way outnumbered Hakka investors. But I mainly focused on the surviving historical buildings in Shantou regardless of what group their investors belonged to. I don't know why for those famous Teochew investors, there's not much left in Shantou.

You can take a train from Guangzhou to Chaoshan Railway Station or take a flight from any big city to Chaoshan Airport. Then from either the airport or the train station you can take a bus to Shantou City. Wish you a nice trip!

Sorry I don't know anything about this area.

@@yanyangoaroundinchina No problem Thanks for your reply

I assume you refer to 海丰. That's a county in the coast not far away from Shantou. It belongs to Shanwei City (汕尾市). They do speak a dielact similar Teochew (Chow Jou) dialect and is heavily influenced by Teochew culture.

@@yanyangoaroundinchina thank. I wrote long comment back but something wrong with some where it's gone. I speak Pu^ Tong Hua- fluently but can't read i skip learn Chinese writing so it save me lot time and mind and still be Chinese and know about China Chinese culture. How you pronounce second word in Mandarin and Chau Jou too if you could probably sound Hai' Hong in Chow jou i could be wrong how it sound too due heard about it 10 year ago. My grand mom my mom side spoke very good that dialect but sh was Vietnamese but lot oversea Chinese forget their root become local people like Vietnamese Thailand Malaysia due Chinese writing very tough to learn so most oversea Chinese lost their roots but then most them like live among themselves to defend themselves against local esply in West US like Chinatown so easy maintain Chinese culture language but can't read like me.

Not that I know. I guess they would never apologize. But I think the important thing for China is not asking for apologies but learning a lesson from this history and never being that weak again.

@@yanyangoaroundinchina Mostly it's civil war like the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions and the Qing dynasty response that killed the most people.

@restoftheworld7200 The Sino-Japan War during the Second World War killed 3,500,000 Chinese. Name a civil war in China that killed more.

​@@yanyangoaroundinchinacommunist chinese party (CCP) has killed more people.

@@yanyangoaroundinchinaTaiping rebellion 😢